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It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha.

It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha.

Herman Melville
Purpose, News, Literature
Herman Melville (1924). “The works of Herman Melville”

A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War--Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.

Herman Melville
War, Would Be, Purpose
Herman Melville (2006). “Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories”, p.75, Bantam Classics

...a man of true science uses few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; Where as the smatterer in science...thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Herman Melville
Men, Thinking, Purpose

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